bgr_349657 - THRACE - ISTROS Unité
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Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 300-200 AC.
Mint name / Town : Istros, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 3,27 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré pour ce type. Très joli droit inhabituel. Frappe molle au revers. Jolie patine vert clait
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et cornue du dieu rivière de l’Ister (Danube) de trois quarts de face à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle volant à gauche attaquant un dauphin.
Reverse legend : [ISTRI]
Reverse translation : (Ister).
Commentary
Typologie inhabituelle.
Historical background
THRACE - ISTROS
(4th - 2nd century BC)
Istros, a Milesian colony, located equidistant from Callatis and the mouths of the Danube, is in Lower Moesia. The Greek name gave its Latin name to the Danube (Danuvius). The two juvenile heads, comparable to the Dioscuri (Gemini), represent the mouths of the Danube (Ister).
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